12-25-2016, 06:22 PM
Hi Dr Scott,
Hope you are having a great Christmas!
Just saw Brad Schoenfeld post thus on FB and wanted your opinion as I know a latge part of FT is failure training:
The persistent claim by some in the industry that training to absolute muscular failure is essential for maximizing muscle growth is without research-based support. Certainly training with a high level of effort is important for continued muscular gains, and perhaps there *might* be a benefit to taking some sets to all out failure (again, the basis for this is largely speculative). But there's no basis to contend that the vein in your temple needs to bulge like a serpent when eking out that last rep to maximize growth, and it may in fact be detrimental over time by hastening the onset of overtraining. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; here the evidence is virtually non-existent
Thanks Doc!!
Joe
Hope you are having a great Christmas!
Just saw Brad Schoenfeld post thus on FB and wanted your opinion as I know a latge part of FT is failure training:
The persistent claim by some in the industry that training to absolute muscular failure is essential for maximizing muscle growth is without research-based support. Certainly training with a high level of effort is important for continued muscular gains, and perhaps there *might* be a benefit to taking some sets to all out failure (again, the basis for this is largely speculative). But there's no basis to contend that the vein in your temple needs to bulge like a serpent when eking out that last rep to maximize growth, and it may in fact be detrimental over time by hastening the onset of overtraining. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; here the evidence is virtually non-existent
Thanks Doc!!
Joe